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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

‘It’s a sensitive time’: Leicester looks for answers after autumn’s unrest

Police on the streets of Leicester in September.
Police on the streets of Leicester in September. Photograph: Andrew Fox/The Guardian

It has been four months since wide unrest broke out on the streets of east Leicester, and although calm has been restored on the streets, a sense of unease remains.

“I don’t think we can ever go back to normal,” said the community worker Rukhsana Hussain. “It reminds me of Covid when everyone was talking about the ‘new normal’. I think we’ve got a new normal in Leicester now, because we’ve had quite a significant change in what the community perceives safety to be.”

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